Tony Leggett, “The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Anthropic Principle
In the current model of particle physics, there are a large number of numbers which don't seem to have any prior explanation. People claim that if you were to charge that change the dimensionless charge of the electron by one part in ide ten to the eight, ten to the nine, what we know as as as chmistry woulder be quite different. And it's improbable that human life could have evolved under those conditions ettera so m so no one can sometines. I'm an and what do you think, personally, of the anthropic principle? Do you think it'st's let's talk about it first. Tell me what you mean by he anthropology principle oristand
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